$1.4 trillion. That should sober us all.

The President and Congress have acknowledged that the bulk of our budget problem lies in the health care, the area of health care entitlements.

There is an increasing disconnect between the public and Washington.

As you have said, put bluntly, the decisionmaking process in Congress is broken. It must be fixed.

I think this is going to be tough politically.

In my opinion, the result of all this is we have fiscal cancer, and it is metastasizing at the rate that very soon no surgery, no chemotherapy, no radiation will be able to cure the problem.

But in addition to reducing our long-term problems by facing health care reform, we need to face many of our other problems in order to truly lower the cost curve or bend it downward in the right direction.

The No. 2 issue of concern to Americans exceed only by the economy was escalating deficits and debt.

I do not want reductions in social programs. But I recognize there is no alternative.

My answer to this question is a resounding and unequivocal yes.

The regulatory and administrative burden upon mineral development on Fort Berthold caused considerable economic harm.

There are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option. There never have been.